Clipping noise-based tone injection for PAPR reduction in OFDM systems

Tone injection (TI) mitigates the high peak-to-average power ratio problem without incurring data rate loss or extra side information. However, optimal TI requires an exhaustive search over all possible constellations, which is a hard optimization problem. In this paper, a novel TI scheme that uses the clipping noise to find the optimal equivalent constellations is proposed. By minimizing the mean error of the clipping noise and possible constellation points, the proposed scheme easily determines the size and position of the optimal equivalent constellations. The proposed scheme achieves significant PAPR reduction while maintaining low complexity.